Home is an "H" word

When you see past meeting present in some kind of whimsical manner, it always presents an oil and water type incompatibility of mix. Still, there's a certain element of odd stupidity that makes it simultaneously campy neat. There seems to be an element of incongruity that people like and embrace.

Thankfully, the past and present represented in the picture, are both now past. Even though I have an affinity for round and unusual shaped houses, I don't think I would welcome these in my neighborhood. Still you gotta admit, most kids would love'em. Can you imagine the coolness as a kid, and the embarrassment as a teen if your family lived in one of these?

Actually they were motel, or as they were known in the day, "motor court" rooms. They were somewhat unique even in their day. These wigwam motor court villages actually sprang up across America. I'm really glad they didn't make it into the home builder's portfolio.

At the end of the day though, all this got me to thinking a little wider, and triggered a question in my mind. Has any other culture been so bastardized, exploited, destroyed, then continuously bastardized, exploited, and kicked aside, as the Native American plains peoples? Historically, the people who came here, eventually treated their slaves better than they have treated the people who were already residing here.

I have to ask about two H words. But, never mind my question about "home". Just who is the "heathen"?


Posted by Dread, who only now occasionally drops in a line or two.